5 year anniversary

On March 20, it was our 5 year anniversary. We spent the weekend up in Park City. We had my sister come over and watch Bentley and Halle. It was fabulous not to have to worry about having enough bottles or where Bentley put his shoes! We stayed in a really nice hotel room that had a hot tub on the balcony. We went to movies, dinner, shopping, Color-me-mine and rode the Zipline at Olympic Park. We had a wonderful time and got to spend some well needed alone time together! I Love you Adam!

Halle's 6 month pictures!

This is Halle's 6 month old pictures. She is such a doll. I just love my neighbor who takes her picture for me. She is wonderful and always gets some great shots! I LOVE YOU KRISTIN, YOU ARE AMAZING!

Bowling at South County Lanes in Payson

A couple of weeks ago we took Bentley bowling. He had such a great time. He loved to roll the ball down the lane and yell even if he didn't hit any pins down. He actually did pretty good, much to the help of the bumpers!!! Bentley is so adventurous and I love that about him.

Christmas 2008

I am a little late on getting our Christmas pictures posted. I have b een extrememly busy over the past month and a half. So here are some of our Christmas pictures. We had my parent's and family over for Christmas Eve. We build gingerbread houses, ate pizza and treats, did a puzzle and watched movies. We had a wonderful time. On Christmas morning, we heard Bentley wake up and we thought that he was still in his room. Apparently he had remembered that it was Christmas and ran into the living room and started opening presents. I was so mad because I wanted to video tape him seeing the presents for the first time. This was the first year that he got really excited about it and I wanted it on film. So Adam and I jumped out of bed and stopped him before he could get too far. We had a wonderful Christmas morning together as a family. Later in the afternoon we went up to my parent's house in American Fork. We opened presents with them also. Adam got a gag gift from my little brother, Kyle. He bought him a twilight shirt and a picture of Radar the horse (inside joke). We all had a good laugh about that one. We had a wonderful Christmas and wish everyone else did also.

Bentley's 3rd birthday party

For Bentley's 3rd birthday (January 31, 2009) we had a car's themed party. He loves the movie Cars. We ate tire cake and had drinks from Flo's V8 cafe (motor oil, Fillmore's organic fuel, Dinoco Oil and Anti-Freeze). We played different car games such as Guides tire shop (relay race rolling tires), Guido's Pit Stop (changing tires and headlight/taillights on cardboard box cars) and we went to Ramones body Art and got temporary tattoos. It was a BLAST! I thank everyone that participated and helped us celebrate this exciting day!

Tribute to my wonderful dad!

It is amazing how much you realize your parent's know after you have kids of your own. It seems like I am always calling my mom and dad to ask them a question or just to get there advice. My father has always been nothing but a wonderful example to me. When I think about Adam as being the father of my children, he has a lot of the same personality and qualities that my fathers has. My father has always patient, loving, worthy priesthood holder, kind, man of his word, caring and many more qualities that I love. I have always been a daddy's girl. I remember being young and just following my dad around as he did work outside or in the house. I just wanted to know how things worked and how to fix stuff. I loved being able to be with my dad and to be able to talk to him. As I have gotten married and moved away from home, I have not had enough time to spend with my dad. I feel that sometimes I take him for gratitude. I never say I love you enough... So I love you dad!

A couple of months ago my dad was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease or also known as ALS. This is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. The progressive degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually leads to their death. When the motor neurons die, the ability of the brain to initiate and control muscle movement is lost. With voluntary muscle action progressively affected, patients in the later stages of the disease may become totally paralyzed. My dad has have several EMGs to evaluate his nerves. For now he is only showing the ALS in his legs. It has not reached his arms yet. He had two EMGs about a month apart and they showed no or little progression between the two. This is very good news. He will have another EMG next week to evaluate any changes again. He will then go see a specialist of ALS up at the University of Utah in the middle of January.

This has been a very hard time for our family, but if anything good has come out of this it is that we have grown together as a family. Thank you to everyone for your support and concern.

Halle's first time seeing Santa and Bentley's first time not crying!

We had a family Christmas Party on Saturday night in Lehi. We had a wonderful dinner. We sang songs and got to spend time with lots of family. After we sang Santa Clause is coming to Town, guess who showed up...Santa! Bentley was so excited to tell Santa that he wanted a plane, a helicopter and a train. He walked right up to Santa, grabbed his hand and said, "Hi Santa, I want a plane, a helicopter and a train." He sat so still and did not move for longer then I had ever seen him hold still for. He loved seeing Santa and loved him even more when Santa gave him a train. Halle just sat on Santa's lap and didn't make a peep! She got the movie Horton hears a who.